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A failed society of fools. Where there is a shortage of educators and doctors because the capitalist model is directed towards meaningless individualism.
While I agree with the sentiment, my wife was a teacher for over a decade and the workload is insane. Easily 60+ hour weeks. At some point she burned out and took a normal job that pays better and works her less. She wishes teaching wasn’t such an insane profession but it is so…capitalism it is.
I wouldn't say 60hr weeks are the norm. Low paid sure, but many teachers have normal 40 hr weeks.
You can work 40 as a teacher, but then you’re prolly really bad at your job as it takes more than 40 to be competent in the current system. The bar is very low unfortunately and there are tons of teachers who phone it in.
We get what we pay for.
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However, there is a high probability that your wife has trained more than a hundred people who have important roles in society today. That's worth more than a rich wage and it makes sense to society. If we all wanted to make $60k from cosco we'd be living in the movie idiocracy.
Or we could fund our education system enough that teachers aren’t making less than retail workers
But that makes things better for us average poors. Our plutocratic overlords would never allow such ~~non~~sense.
In this case it's probably because teachers are underpaid. Costco happens to be one of the few known for treating their employees well and going beyond legal requirements.
Costco in my area pays less than Amazon and is also a hectic 8 or 10 hours on the floor with limited breaks.
That in any case, and not just that. Whether or not teachers or doctors get payed, ,basically we needs them, or we're back in the stone age. While Cosco's employee is not worth a damn for progress.